194% Mr. F. Walker’s Characters of 
nigro-guttata; scutellum linea nigra postice dilatata; abdomen 
piceo-quadrifasciatum ; coxz tibizque postice apice nigree ; 
femora postica nigro-varia ; alee anticz cinerez, apud costam 
subluridee. 
Male.—Luteous. Head yellow, with three black stripes in front, 
one on the furrow for the reception of the scape, and one on each 
side. Antenne piceous, filiform, luteous beneath and at the tips ; 
scape yellow. Prothorax yellow. Scutum of the mesothorax 
yellow, except on each side ; parapsides with a broad black streak, 
which is abbreviated hindward; a black dot on each of the 
paraptera; scutellum armed with two minute teeth, adorned with 
a black line, which is dilated hindward. Petiole as long as the 
metathorax. Abdomen elongate, elliptical, shorter and very much 
narrower than the thorax, adorned with four or five piceous bands. 
Hind-coxz with black tips; hind-femora black towards the base, 
adorned on the outer side with two abbreviated black lines which 
proceed from the black part, armed with eight large teeth; hind- 
tibiz black towards the tips. Wings cinereous, with a lurid tinge 
towards the costa; veins pebreceous: ; ulna less than half the length 
of the humerus ; radius as long as the ulna; cubitus moderately 
long. 
Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 73 lines. 
This may be the male of S. basilica (ante, p. 188). 
21. Smiera contermina. 
Foem.—F lava; caput sulco antico margineque postico nigris ; 
antennz nigree, scapo subtus flavo; mesothoracis segmenta 
nigra, flavo-marginata; metathorax nigro-bipunctatus; ab- 
domen nigrum, basi flavum; pedes postici coxis supra 
nigris, femoribus nigro-vittatis ; alee cineree. 
Female.x—Yellow. Head black behind and on the furrow for 
the reception of the scape. Antenne black, very slightly increas- 
ing in thickness to the tips; scape yellow beneath; scutum and 
parapsides black, with the exception of their borders; paraptera 
black towards the scutum and along the hind-border; scutellum 
armed with two short teeth, adorned with a large triangular black 
spot. Metathorax with a black point on bap side. Petiole as 
long as the metathorax, Abdomen black, fusiform, yellow towards 
the base, shorter and much narrower than the thorax. Hind- 
coxe black above, except towards the base; hind-femora with a 
black stripe along the five very large black teeth. Wings cine- 
